duumvir
noun
one of two officers or magistrates jointly exercising the same public function.
duumvirs
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pluralof duumvir.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A truce was sealed that day between Nono and the twins, though the duumvirs said never a word on the subject.
From The Golden House by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker
In a relief of the time of Heliogabalus a meteoric stone is seen carried in procession, preceded by duumvirs, lictors, &c.—an evidence of an Oriental cult practised in Aquileia.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
We find also the names of local duumvirs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
Marcus Staius Rufus, son of M. Rufus, duumvirs of justice for the second time, caused the labrum to be made at the public expense, by order of the Decurions.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
But there was a right of appeal to the Curia from judicial decisions of the duumvirs in certain cases.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
